Kevin Ayers: Golden Ayers
Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 6 March 1976
IN HIS last, rather desperate sounding album, Kevin Ayers really hit the nail on the head. In the middle of the first song, weightily titled 'Observations', he slips in two lines: 'Some of us I know seem to have much more, Born with a key to every door.'
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